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Catholic Relief Services

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Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

Catholic Relief Services is a global humanitarian organization that eases the suffering of and provides development assistance to people in need in over 100 countries. As the official international relief organization of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, CRS focuses on emergency response, health, agriculture, education, and justice and peacebuilding. Their work is guided by Catholic values and the organization aims to serve the poor and vulnerable, regardless of race, religion, or nationality.

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1943

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

📋 Description

• Provide vision, direction and management of the CASCADE project; serve as the primary point of contact for CASCADE to the GHR Foundation and external public, private and non-government stakeholders. • Lead all aspects of implementation of the CASCADE Project, including team management, engagement and collaboration with other CRS units, and contributions to thought leadership on catalyzing scale. • Facilitate and foster CRS efforts to catalyze change at scale by supporting scaling initiatives including in sectors supported by Strategic Change Platforms, and by supporting scale-sensitive programming that works with system actors with scale in mind. • Identify and develop opportunities within the CRS program and funding environment to incorporate scaling approaches and to position CRS as a catalytic actor among governments, civil society, and private sector. • Lead the development and implementation of agency-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices related to catalyzing scale. Coordinate exchange and learning on scaling across CRS units. • Work with communications, knowledge management and resource mobilization teams to document learning and develop resource and communications materials focused on CRS’ journey to catalyze scale. Support use of learning in catalytic programming and resource mobilization. • Represent CRS’ scaling work at external conferences, communities of practice and other forums, presenting and publishing learning and results. Engage with external specialists to exchange learning, share CRS’ approaches and seek guidance for scaling efforts. • Promote, uphold and model a commitment to the efficient use of agency and donor resources. Ensure compliance with GHR Foundation grants, including financial tracking and oversight of budgets, finance, administration and reporting to the foundation. Approve program expenditures, budget adjustments, and cost modification requests to donors. • Supervise CASCADE team members, fostering collaboration and providing coaching and mentoring. Strategically tailor individual development plans and complete performance assessments. Oversee staffing plans and recruitment as needed. • Create and maintain conditions conducive to learning. Foster a safe environment for sharing of ideas, solutions, and challenges; identify performance gaps and training opportunities and ensure the design and delivery of high-quality technical assistance. • Support CASCADE Senior Advisor, Regions; CASCADE Senior Technical Advisor, Adaptive Systems for Scale; CASCADE Advisor II, Professional Development; and CASCADE Advisor, KML in their respective roles. • Engage periodically with CRS executive leadership to update and discuss progress, learnings, and recommendations for building capabilities and institutionalizing approaches for catalyzing scale. • Convene representatives from various CRS departments to develop and advance aligned approaches related to scale.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in international development, development studies, or another relevant technical area. • Experience applying the principles and concepts of influence and scaling, which may include evidence translation, advocacy, communication, partnership, or others. • Experience with systems change, change management, accompanying teams and organizations in undertaking organizational change and institutionalizing new ways of working. • Experience influencing governments and/or the private sector in international development/humanitarian contexts. • Experience engaging partners and strengthening partnerships. • 8 or more years of relevant management and technical experience. • 7 years of experience managing donor funds, ideally including multi-country grants. Knowledge and experience in budget management. • 5 years of staff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment. Experience coaching and mentoring senior program staff. • Master’s degree preferred. • Required Languages: English required. French or Spanish preferred. • Travel: Must be willing and able to travel up to 15%. • Experience in MS Office package (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio), MS Teams Conferencing Applications, and information and budget management systems. • Ability to legally work where the position is to be performed; positions requiring residence or frequent travel outside a home country may require work permit eligibility and pre-employment medical clearance.